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...though none played in--the great 1968 World Series between the Tigers and the Cardinals. That series featured a great pitching match-up between Bob Gibson (1.12 ERA that year) and Denny McLain (the last 30-game winner at 31-4 that year). To no one's surprise, one pitcher won three games in the series that ended with the Tigers triumphing, four games to three. To everyone's surprise, though, the pitcher accomplishing this rare feat was neither Gibson or McLean. Ten points if you can identify that pitcher...
Perhaps the coach forgot that a lefty-lefty match-up should prove beneficial to the pitcher; or maybe he was just joshing...
What ensued was a walk, a pair of singles, a pair of grounders that shortstop Hayes couldn't convert to outs, a bunt, and a two-run squibbler to the right of the pitcher's mound...
Because when B.C. relief pitcher Jim Robinson walked Chris McAndrews on four straight pitches with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning, this masterpiece was suddenly soured...
Although Sutton surrendered two hits in the top of the sixth inning, a fielder's choice and an around-the-horn double play--from Paul Rooney to Kay to Rich Renninger--enabled the senior pitcher to escape unscathed...